Blog posts tagged "photos"

The “You and X” pages are my favorite Facebook feature I’ve seen in a long time. (I’ll admit I’m a pretty limited user of “the Book” so the bar is low, though a new feature we launched adminonly yesterday on Etsy is making me think about bulking up on ‘Book friends).

If you visit the “/photosof/kellan” style people URLs you’ll get prompted “Anyone ever snapped a picture of the two of you?” and if you click on the link you can see pictures of the two of you. (us?) You can also hack the URL to string together a longer list of folks.

Took the bike out for a spin on what might be the last truly hot and sunny weekend of the year.

Head out in search of the fabled Red Hook ball field food vendors. For 30 years they’ve been congregating on the weekends in Red Hook to feed the hordes who show up to play and watch soccer. And its widely agreed to be the best Mexican and Latin American food in the 5 boroughs.

Last year they had a brush with extinction as the city, in its bid to clean up the neighborhood and make it yuppy/Ikea safe shut down the proceedings citing sanitation issues. Eventually a compromise was struck, and a handful of the vendors are back, now in plumbed trucks. The food is still very very good, but their numbers are reduced. My favorite was the pupusas loroco con queso.

But even before that a flat tire drove me into the The Bike Shop and the Coffee Den across the way, where they serve a decent cup of Gorilla. Need to get those kevlar tires.

From there we walked along the water front, dramatically changed from our last visit two years ago. And found to our glee that Steve’s was still serving their swingles, frozen chocolate dipped key lime pie on a stick.

On the ride back I wandered into Fort Greene park, and wondered if I’d found a portal back to Dolores Park. So startled I forgot to take a photo.

And then, at the end of the 13 mile loop, blocks from home, tripped over a fafi and Koralie piece, paint not quite dry.

Jasmine introduced me to the work of Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun who sculpts textured swooping surfaces that veer between shaggy and organic, to austere moonscapes out of bits of hand dyed, inked, and folded paper. Gorgeous stuff.

“Every year around this time I search for the latest photos from the summer’s collection of trips from El Camino de Santiago, the ancient route filled with stunning scenery which spans between France and the north of Spain.”

Jasmine and I headed to Los Angeles for the new year. And we had an amazing time. This is hard for me. As a native of Northern California I was raised to despise Los Angeles. (and really I’m more a Central/Southern California, but culturally we identified as NorCal.) Studies on environmentalism and conservation just reinforced the point.

The state of California has recognized my ability to uphold the tradition of driving excellence for which it is known.02:51 PM December 26, 2007

Part of the deal for us going to LA was that I’d do a chunk of the driving as Jasmine’s wrist is sprained. This was problematic as I don’t drive, and didn’t have a license. So on Dec. 24th we spent some time driving, and on Dec. 26th I proved that CA will give a driver’s license to just about anyone. And Dec. 28th we drove the 350 miles to LA. And so ends a 15 year boycott of car culture.

The weather was great, we saw amazing art, we ate great food, we caught a good show, and saw good friends. We took a bunch of photos, I’ve got a small sampling of them, and Jasmine has a more complete set.

We met up with Jasmine’s people from NYC at the VarlaNYE party. The Dickies were the headliners, but the Airliner is a great funky dive bar, with 3 stages, which they kept busy that night, including our favorite act of the night, Vegas based “Objex”, the only one we got photos of.